Juan Carlos Zegarra

Partner and cofounder

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Ranked by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Leaders League with more than 25 years’ experience in taxation of activities related to natural resources and in complex operations requiring local and international tax planning, providing strategies that consider integral matters of the business. He had participated in transactions for business acquisitions and transfers, including companies’ reorganizations. His experience also includes advisory in patrimonial protection, international taxation, Investment protection agreements and in the defense of such operations within the administrative, fiscal and judicial processes and procedures, stability agreements, local and international arbitration.

Education

Master of Business Administration by A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University (2017 – 2019).
Master of Business Administration by PUCP Business School (2017 – 2019).
Executive Program in International Tax Law – International Tax Center ITC Leiden, Panama (2016).
Director of the Managing Committee of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law (2013-2015 and 2017-2019)
Management Program for Lawyers – Yale University (2014).
Diplomat in International Arbitration and Investments, Postgraduate School, Universidad del Pacifico (2012).
Lawyer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP (1998).

Associations

Treasurer of the Directive Committee of Peruvian Institute of Tax Law – IPDT, for the period 2019 - 2023.
Member of the Committee for Tax Matters of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE, for the period 2021-2023.
Member of the Tax Committee of the National Confederation of Private Entrepreneurial Institutions – CONFIEP (2005-2007 and 2021-2023).
Director of the Managing Committee of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law (2013-2015 and 2017-2019)
Vice-President of the Committee for Tax Matters of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE, for the period 2017 – 2019.
Member of the Committee for Legal Matters of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru - AMCHAM (2009).

Academic activities

Professor of the master’s degree in Tax Law, PUCP (2023 and 2024-1).
Professor of undergraduate courses: “General Tax Law” (2022 and 2002-2016) and “Tax Legislation” (2014) and, postgraduate courses, “International Tax Law” (2010) in PUCP’s Law School.
Peruvian National Rapporteur in IFA 2017, Buenos Aires.
Full-time professor of the course “Tax aspects in mining” in the Diplomat of Specialization in Mining Tax (2012) and “Tax planning of investments and operations” (2010) in ESAN University.

Affiliations

International Fiscal Association – IFA Peru. (2005).
Peruvian Institute of Tax Law – IPDT (2003).
Lima Bar Association (1999).

Previous Experience

Consultant at Zuzunaga & Assereto Abogados (June 2023 - April 2024).
Founding partner at Zuzunaga, Assereto & Zegarra Abogados (January 2008 – May 2023).
Associate at Rubio, Leguía, Normand & Asociados Law Firm (1999 - 2008).

Languages

Spanish and English.